Restored 29/30 majestic radio pics.

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Philco wa 99.95 and would be about 2500 dollars today. My guess would be the radio evolved over 18 months to two years, with constant upgrades. The catalog I saw only listed your radio from 1932, but who knows when it was printed, I think ANY radio from before June of 1930 is very rare, Cadillac went through no less than 4 styles from September 30 to July 1931. Not just minor changes……diffrent heads and boxes. Interesting Majestic mad refrigerators! I hav e seen a Philo Tranzatone marked as 1929 in a radio museum.

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The radio looks gorgeous now.

Good luck getting the gremlins worked out once it’s in the car with the motor running.

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If all else fails, I’ll just turn the car off and radio on at the Pierce meets. Lolol. Problem solved. )

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That radio will draw about 10 amps. You might consider keeping wire leads separate from car wiring, and carry an Optima AGM sealed battery to run it when stopped.

In the SF Bay Area, there’s nothing worth listening to on the AM band anyway, and precious little on FM. That’s why I haven’t been installing radios in old cars for >10 years.

For show-and-tell at the Gatsby picnic, I have a 1932-34 General Electric B-52 Meteor portable radio, designed for placing on the floorboard or runningboard, and which can be run or 6V or 120V. See http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/general_el_meteor_b_52.html

George

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